The Delingha Supcon Tower Plant – Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage System 2 is a 50,000kW energy storage project located in Delingha, Qinghai, China.

The thermal energy storage project uses molten salt as its storage technology. The project was announced in 2014 and was commissioned in 2018.

Description

The Delingha Supcon Tower Plant – Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage System 2 was developed by Zhejiang supcon electronic. The project is owned by Zhejiang supcon electronic (100%).

The key applications of the project are renewables capacity firming and renewables energy time shift.

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Zhejiang supcon electronic has delivered the project.

Methodology

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